My cousin is a couple months pregnant, but she's very small so she's showing a lot. Apparently this exchange happened between a girl in her sons class (she volunteers there a lot) and her mom:

Girl: Ms. Stella has a baby in her!
Mom: How can you tell?
Girl: because she swallowed a volleyball.

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So the other day my mom, brother, and SIL took Matthew to get a haircut. They were telling him how great it would be because it's getting hot and his hair was quite long. Matthew busted out with "no, don't cut my hair, it's so beautiful". DEAD. I still crack up thinking about what a little narcissist he is.

I've been having problems with my 5 year-old seeking negative attention. It's been pretty bad as of late, so I wanted to give her some positive reinforcement for not having tantrums or making crazy demands today.

Me: Lilly, I want you to know how happy I am that you're having a good day. You're behaving so nicely and you've been very helpful. I'm glad my old Lilly is back.

K is 5 1/2 and he is going through the negative attention thing too. Today, I stayed home to just spend the day with him and it's been great. What will tomorrow be like? Could be great, could be, "DON"T HUG ME CAUSE YOU ARE BAD MOMMY!!!!!"

Also DD came to my bedroom door the other day holding our kitten and petting her like Dr Evil. I say "Why ate you maniacally petting Peanut?". She replies with a huge grin "Because she wants me to meniacally pet her". I laughed so hard.

My fat thumb will make mistakes.

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I had my laptop out the other day studying for an exam and P (3) brings her little "Leapfrog" computer and a box of cookies over and starts tapping on the keyboard whole eating cookies. I said "what are you doing with those cookies?" She replied "studying. That's what you do when you study."

I was busted for eating an entire box of girl guide cookies while studying
Cracked me up.

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